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Social Explorer
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- Plugins required
- Adobe Flash Player
- Description
- Social Explorer provides convenient access to several major sources of demographic data:
the U.S. Decennial Census of population and housing, the American Community Survey, and data on
religion from InfoGroup and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study. Social
Explorer's strength is its interactive mapping tool that allows data to be easily visualized, as
well as the easy creation of data extracts.
- Help
- Help documents and how-to videos are available from the top menu bar.
- User tools and features
- Users can generate custom reports and maps using the "Maps" and "Reports" tabs
respectively. Creating a personal account allows the user to save reports, maps, and
slideshows.
- Dates covered
- From 1790 to the present.
- Updating frequency
- Annual.
- Sources
- Social Explorer is an independent project that has developed its own interface to
display data from the U.S. Decennial Census of population and housing, the American
Community Survey, and data on religion from InfoGroup and the Religious Congregations and Membership
Study.
- Type of coverage
- Data.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- None.
- Producer/content provider
- Social Explorer
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Oxford Online
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